Posted by Blue Cheer 1 on January 14, 2002, at 22:11:18
In reply to Re: Music that never stops (musical hallucinations), posted by lou pilder on January 14, 2002, at 20:21:39
> > Any particular music? Does the music change or what? It reminds me of some people who have actually received radio stations on their fillings. Honestly! Your case sounds so strange - never heard of anything like this.
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> > > Group people: After taking an AD for 6 days, music began playing and has never stopped. It is an adverse reaction to the AD. If you are experiancing this , email me at louelsa@cs.com Lou
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> The music plys 24/7 It comes rom my memory. Any suggestion will trigger a song. If yo say " summer", I will hear " If everI would leaveyou, it wouldn't be in summer" This is not a case likethe person that heard music through his fillings. I wish it was for Iwould have my teeth pulled! LouHi, Lou. I apologize for never writing you back a year or so ago. I recall you mentioning that you were corresponding with a researcher who was studying this phenomenon. I know exactly what you're talking about, and I don't think they're hallucinations at all. It's one of my most distressing symptoms, and they started immediately after discontinuation of long-term Valium (over 20 years), which was preceded (one month earlier) by lithium discontinuation -- after using it for 25 years. Following diazepam d/c, I developed severe OCD symptoms and had to be hospitalized. (Dx was changed from bipolar disorder to OCD *only*, and I was subsequently treated with high-dose SSRIs (Zoloft 200 mg/day; Prozac 80 mg/day), and after 13 months of this (minus a mood stabilizer), I had a severe dysphoric manic episode. Lithium was reinstituted, of course, and I was told I had comorbid BD and OCD. But, I'd never had any OCD symptoms before Valium d/c, and the only symptom that didn't resolve after being treated with high
se SSRI administration was *intrusive music*. Obsessional symptoms have been described in the literature as part of BZD withdrawal So, the hearing of music can definitely be precipitated by drugs (most notably benzodiazepines). Do you have any OCD symptoms, I wonder? I plan to write Padmal de Silva soon. He's a psychologist at the University of London (King's College), and has written much about OCD and songs or music. He calls it non-visual obsessional imagery. Even now, if you do a search on google or alt.support.ocd in google groups for "ocd intrusive music", you'll see it listed as a symptom of OCD on scales. Changes in septo-hippocampal function have been postulated as precipitating OCD in benzodiazepine withdrawal (Jeffrey Gray: _The Neuropsychology of Anxiety_). Anyway, I'm interested in hearing more about how you experience this.
Talk to you soon.
Blue
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